castleful

English

Etymology

From castle +‎ -ful.

Noun

castleful (plural castlefuls or castlesful)

1. Enough to fill a castle.
   • 1874 January, “Baby’s Thoughts”, in St. Nicholas, volume I, number 3, page 168:

     Does n’t she know very well that the Giant-Killer will rescue whole castlesful of distressed damsels?

   • 1992, Pat Gerber, “England’s Edward and the Celtic Fringes”, in The Search for the Stone of Destiny, Canongate Press, →ISBN, page 72:

     Welsh resistance effectively collapsed, to be encircled with new castlefuls of Edward’s soldiers.

   • 1998, Penelope Rosemont, “In the Service of Revolution, 1930–1939”, in Surrealist Women: An International Anthology, Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, section “Introduction: Women and Surrealism in the Thirties”, page 47:

     As painters and graphic artists, Agar, Carrington, Colquhoun, Hugo, Kahlo, Kerrn-Larsen, Lamba, Oppenheim, Rimmington, Toyen, and Varo opened whole castlesful of imaginative windows that have made life more thrilling for the dreamers of all countries ever since.